While he was involved with the criminal underground in this year’s Spring Breakers, James Franco has taken up the drug trade once again, but in a less charming capacity. Playing sociopathic methamphetamine kingpin Gator Bodine in this fall’s Homefront, he faces his biggest threat yet: Jason Statham.
Scripted by Sylvester Stallone, the Gary Fleder-directed project finds Statham playing a former DEA agent who move to Louisiana in order to leave his violent past behind him. The first trailer has landed today and while it looks like a low-rent thriller, the peculiar combination of Statham and Franco going head-to-head might make it worth a matinee or rental. Also starring Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth and Frank Grillo, check it out below, along with the ridiculous poster.
Former drug enforcement agent, Phil Broker (Statham), a family man who moves off the grid with his daughter, to a seemingly quiet bayou backwater to escape his troubled past. However, Broker’s world soon becomes anything but quiet once he discovers that an underbelly of drugs and violence riddles the small town. Soon, a sociopathic methamphetamine kingpin, Gator Bodine (Franco) puts Broker and his daughter in harm’s way forcing Broker back into action in order to save his family and the town.
Homefront arrives on November 27th.